Von Franz Jungian Analyst Quotes & Sayings

Ruth did not approve of young men. So noisy. — Kerry Greenwood

[The British constitution] presumes more boldly than any other the good sense and the good faith of those who work it. — William E. Gladstone

We do not have to be ashamed of what we are. As sentient beings we have wonderful backgrounds. These backgrounds may not be particularly enlightened or peaceful or intelligent. Nevertheless, we have soil good enough to cultivate; we can plant anything in it. — Chogyam Trungpa

Hockey is the only thing that I'm not good at that I love. — Guy Kawasaki

Wisdom and inner peace must be created by yourself. — Dalai Lama

- The one who parasitizes, suffers the most. -
Petra Hermans
Netherlands, 23-9-2016
Amen
God — Petra Hermans

I have indeed lived nominally fifty years, but deduct out of them the hours which I have lived to other people, and not to myself, and you will find me still a young fellow. For that is the only true Time, which a man can properly call his own
that which he has all to himself; the rest, though in some sense he may be said to live it, is other people's Time, not his. — Charles Lamb

The big bulk of the response to antidepressants is the placebo response. — Irving Kirsch

The Jungian analyst Marie-Louise von Franz once observed that a person cutting vegetables while preparing to cook food is full of daydreams and fantasies that nurture the life of the soul. Contemplation can be an absorption in work that is free of self-consciousness and yet rich with imagination. Serious — Thomas Moore

Gratitude is the heart's first language. — Joey Garcia

There was nothing, she saw at once, to be hoped for in the way of interest from their clothes. She did not consciously think this, for she was having a violent reaction against beautiful clothes and the slavery they impose on one, her experience being that the instant one had got them they took one in hand and gave one no peace till they had been everywhere and been seen by everybody. You didn't take your clothes to parties; they took you. It was quite a mistake to think that a woman, a really well-dressed woman, wore out her clothes; it was the clothes that wore out the woman
dragging her about at all hours of the day and night. No wonder men stayed young longer. Just new trousers couldn't excite them. She couldn't suppose that even the newest trousers ever behaved like that ... — Elizabeth Von Arnim